Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Simple geography (see map) explained it. During the early '60s, when Russia may hold a temporary lead in numbers of intercontinental missiles, NATO's IRBMs based in England and Italy, later perhaps in Turkey, will cover enough targets in Russia to bridge the gap between less effective SAC bombers and rising numbers of U.S.-based ICBMs. Perhaps even more important, possession of missiles by NATO nations (for the time being the U.S. controls the atomic warheads) gives them a sense of participation in their own defense in the missile...
...Nixon-minded Republican politicos whistle in the dark that New York's governor Nelson Rockefeller, 50, will bow gracefully out of a 1960 contest with Vice President Nixon, 46, before an argument that, runs thus: 1) Rockefeller partisans will soon discover that Nixon has a solid, unbreakable, nationwide hold on state chairmen, national committeemen and convention delegates; 2) Rockefeller will announce next spring that he will not be a presidential candidate and that he intends to run for re-election as Governor in 1962; 3) Nixon will be re-elected President in 1964, and being constitutionally unable...
...Communist Party when it offered its congratulations to Peking for "leading the people of Tibet to prosperity and equality." "Why," asked the Indian Express of Nehru, "this strange tenderness for Communist feelings as contrasted with the disregard for the sensitivities of the democracies?" Said the Hindustan Times: "Let us hold our heads low. A small country on our border has paid the ultimate penalty for its temerity to aspire to independence . . . Much else could die with Tibet if we do not even now heed the warning...
Most Western diplomats hold that if Kassem ever does give way on the arming of the People's Resistance Force, the point of no return will have been passed in Iraq. Some pessimistic observers argue that Kassem is already so much a prisoner of the Reds that it is only a matter of time-and not too much time-until that point is reached. In the face of this looming diplomatic and strategic disaster, the U.S. and British policy of hands off in Iraq seems at first glance negligent. In fact, it is the only policy open...
...first day's issues hit the streets in 1944: "How long before I have to start making money?" Said volatile Tor Bonnier, head of Sweden's biggest publishing house (books, magazines, the Stockholm morning Dagens Nyheter): "It's a question of how long my nerves hold out." Replied Editor Carl-Adam Nycop: "In that case, I'll have to hurry...